PGI’s Michael Wolfe on OpenACC Directives for GPUs

In this video from SC12, Michael Wolfe from The Portland Group discusses the origins of the OpenACC standard for programming directives in GPUs. He also weighs in on the recent OpenMP 4.0 technical report, which proposes to incorporate OpenACC directives into OpenMP 4.0 sometime in 2013.

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Christian Kniep from Docker Inc. gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "This talk will recap the history of and what constitutes Linux Containers, before laying out how the technology is employed by various engines and what problems these engines have to solve. Afterward, Christian will elaborate on why the advent of standards for images and runtimes moved the discussion from building and distributing containers to orchestrating containerized applications at scale." [Read More...]

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